Agile Event Session

Mentoring vs Coaching: Show Me the Difference

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Abstract/Description

The industry holds that both mentoring skill and professional coaching skill are useful for scrum masters, agile coaches, and managers. Yet the differences between these approaches is not crystal clear for most people. It’s time to show more than tell.

In this session, Lyssa Adkins coaches an audience member and mentors another audience member on their real-life agile problems. Real people, real mentoring and coaching sessions.

You will witness conversations that usually happen only behind closed doors. Along the way, you will:

  • learn the anatomy of powerful coaching conversations and mentoring conversations
  • see how these skill sets address problems in radically different ways
  • become clearer on when to use which

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Speaker(s) may be willing to present this session at local group meetings and other events.

Agile2015
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